Trump’s settlement from Paramount shows complete media control

When Paramount Global News Parts in Media peers Paying Donald Trump’s Lawfare last weekBig News Brands CBS News and 60 minutes The Redstone family of the company, the company, thought that they had purchased peace while thinking that they had purchased an exit ticket from the fighting media industry.

Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS News last year for an interview with presidential rival Kamala Harris, and claimed that the TV segment was positively shown to him and was called “election intervention .. Paramount has agreed to pay $ 16 million to Trump to end the epic since then.

But it wasn’t paramount. They were once the fundamental value proposal of commercial media, their own integrity and the ethical principles of journalism. The end of the claim that the billionaire class plays or has any role in the moral economy of the old news.

It is not surprising that the morality of the American Oligarch owners-and most of our news media is a price. Shock, CBS’s Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman CBS News itself “It is so bad that it is meaningless to be sanctioned as a meaningless”.

Many of the company’s journalists do not have it. In May, CBS News Head Wendy McMahon followed 60 minutes Manager producer Bill, diplomatic, comes out of the door by saying: “The company and I do not agree on the road to the future.” Others are currently in the regular mass communication tradition, BUSINESS DATAKSIn Australia, including ten people, as shown with their axes Project.

Significant Law? This Trump’s music plays. The genius is to know how easy it is to play media and information companies to maximize the return in humiliation, while gathering a few stray millions to fill the presidential library account. Paramount and Disney’s ABC network turned out to be $ 16 million. 10 million dollars from twitterAnd 25 million dollars from meta.

Some billionaires related to the media have found more direct ways of Kowtow, including Jeff Bezos, to the President and his family. Main Media Agreement Melania Trump pay $ 40 million for her right to tell her story through Amazon Prime.

Trump’s enthusiastic to do the people net “President Donald J. Trump gives another win for the American people… Fake news media is responsible for injustice and deceptions… Nobody escapes from lying to the American people.”

Open to everyone, Paramount (and the other oligarch’s media, who settled with Trump), is happy to declare what he has done only for money, forcing this harmful old saw “shareholder interests .. And of course, especially when the uncertainties of the US courts under Trump, it will always be cheaper to pay millions of more stray than paying much more than paying for what threatens with no endless legal costs.

And when we look at the Redstone billionaire point of view, it should be good He cleaned the road To evacuate the family’s interest in Paramount through merger with Skydand, the son of the world, David Ellison second richest man and Trump Buddy Larry Ellison (also speculated As Tiktok’s possible owner, Trump can remove it from Chinese control).

However, Trump’s shaking of US media owners is not only a reproduction of the old media story about the involved ownership of broadcast licenses and dollars. On the contrary, we see the end of something big: the incubation of ethical journalism in the mass media in commercial media. All this verification, negotiations and accountability, which maintained a strong symbiosis in the golden rivers in exchange for hosting the political truth of journalism, was made in a flawed manner.

Some of the cost of hosting came to stand up for journalism-as well as the cases fighting for their own good and other plaintiffs, just as nine has to do in the Ben Roberts-Smith case estimated cost 30 million dollars. He won the lucky case for nine, and Australia’s own media Oligochch Kerry Stokes left most of its nine tabs.

Apparently, old media hosts decided that all these journalists – with the ethics of Highfalutin – only unnecessary. Much better Like News CorpOf course, this is to lean on more reliable large language models to “improve the workflow.

As a political story, Trump applause in the media owners is very similar to the very common autocratic model that moves to reinforce the news media in the hands of Oligoch allies. Hungaryor Erdogan TurkeyWith extreme fines in the news media.

Trump’s Mafia province, Putin biography and New York Times writer Masha Gessen In April, he said: “Certainly a central system, a person, boss, Don distribute money and power”.

Now in mass media.